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So you wouldn't mind running for a $800 stake for a C5 race and 400 for a C1? 20k stake for the NZ cup? Turnover would plummet if you stopped the Aus imports racing in NZ, and the quality of our racing would be diabolical to say the least. You could say goodbye to C5 racing as well, good luck trying to get 8 C5 NZ bred dogs running in a particular distance at a particular region. Maybe you could list all the c4/5 NZ bred middle distance dogs to see what our 'elite' racing would look like? Would be rather interested in how many you can.

Wake up mate, without imports NZ greyhound racing wouldn't be running for the stake money it currently is, turnover would be less than half of what it currently is, and you would struggle to get anyone interested in punting your typical low grade Wednesday or Friday meeting. How boring would it be without having the likes of Vikkers, D.C, Swift Fantasy, Little Mother ETC ETC running on our tracks, the publicity Swift Fantasy generated in NZ was far greater than the 4 dogs you named for your argument.

Cmon someone spill the beans for us 'outsiders' even if you need to do it cryptically!!

Totally agree. I find it staggering the only way to find a dogs offences in NZ is by going thru EVERY stipes report, it's lazy, unprofessional and downright pathetic. GRV do it well, and how friggen hard would it be to implement here? Piece of cake if someone gave a crap about the punter.

I agree it's not a good look and I still havn't been able to get the 'Brown eye' from Xmas eve meeting completely out of my mind lol. BUT I think any 'weight restriction' implemented for handlers would be thrown out in court immediately. They have as much right to be there as anyone, next thing you know they won't let any fat people work at KFC or McDonalds, where does it stop?

Courtesy of formpro.co.nz " 6 1200 R75 Hunapo 35.46 11.82 35.74 1.11.20 Hunapo 34.70 won well Mime 34.54 weaved her way through from the back for a strong finishing second- ride queried Rich Billie Marsh 36.18 set a decent tempo and held on well for third. Triaction 35.94 battled ok for fourth Miss Pareto 34.90 ran home well and back in R65 grade can be harder to beat. Persuasive 34.78 got too far back and after clearing traffic, ran home well. Nice mare capable of better.

No crouch? Now there's a surprise... Seriously tho great fields, a shame DD1 isn't having a crack but he's got nothing left to prove. I'm picking Dalgetty to win the whole thing. Great to see Above All having a crack, drawn out in 8 for his heat which could prove difficult.

So they re-drew the fields, and changed the C2 520 to a C1/2 520. No press release as far as I can see, cmon NZGRA where's your integrity? Atleast confess when you make a cock up, or in this case the wanganui club making a cock up due to no national selection policy!! Too many people with self interest at the clubs around NZ.

and then they disappear...

Amazing win. What a great chaser, gave them a start, came around them, and ran super time. No excuses in behind! Arguably the Robert's probably should have ran the quinella with Brick being awfully unlucky.

Lol WTF is going on. Mickey Mouse outfit if I've ever seen one!!

Rules are rules are they not? Should the RIU just ignore them? What if it was marijuana or meth? Would your opinion change because of the drug in question? Should someone be let off because a couple of years ago they would have been allowed to drive a car? In your opinion should they be allowed to drink and drive an animal that has a mind of its own on occassions?

Hope your punting skills are better than your accounting skills would be the reply I'd expect if my interaction was anything to go by!

M2 R7 #6 thanks

Free to good home it says in the first post, never a good sign lol.

Champion cricketer, champion bloke and a fantastic writer. I loved reading his articles on cricinfo. RIP M.Crowe, gone far too early! Staggering the likes of Russell Coutts / McCaw etc get offered a knighthood over this man who really should have been acknowledged far greater than he was.

Just looking at the pools from tab.com.au and note the closing tote prices are different from ours, im assuming the pools shown on their website is just the Aus money while ours is NZ and Aus?

Any updates on the main commingling issue? When are we going to be able to bet into a decent Aus quad pool instead of this $1500-2000 rubbish we are dished up. Yes I know I can do it from my Aus account, but that's not the point. It's gone from being a 1 month issue to a issue that doesn't look like being resolved anytime soon.

Interesting, thanks for that. I know nearly every Thursday day meeting has had diabolical pools for a long long time now because Aus hasn't been covering it. Will have a look later and see how they compare. Normally struggle to get over 3k in the win pool on a Thursday day meet.

They don't cover the Thursday day meeting in Aus anymore due to the amount of meetings they already cover. Check out the win / place pools at the day meeting today, any bet over $100 will dramatically influence your price and its down right embarrassing to say the least. Wonder what head office is doing to try and get NZ punters betting on NZ dogs, because without Aus betting into our pools it's common knowledge the industry would be ****ed.

I thought I'd share my recent interaction with this lady, sent her a message saying that I don't like the new format on the mobile version of thedogs new form guides, the format is average, you can't click on a dogs name when you bring up the whole card of fields in 'print/view all races' and now need to go thru them individually to click on a dogs profile. A couple of the replies I recieved were so ignorant it isn't funny. "The print/view races are avail be on mobile. I have tested them myself ant they appear in a better format than previously - one race per page. We had one other complaint and I went back to the website people and they advise they are availbe for phone viewing. I have checked on my phone and the fields appear ok." "You have never been able to bring up the form from the print/view tab. The print view is merely a list of fields. That has never changed. By going into the fields themselves you can utiluse that function." "Good afternoon Rxxxxx. Hope your punting is better than your computer skills. Cheers"

Whoever has the Thursday day meeting has a massive disadvantage. 2k win and place pools vs 10k + pools for the evening meet. Should be 50/50 South Island and north island.

5 years ago, and was hardly a deliberate performance enhancing positive was it? Maybe you could go back and read the JCA report? Actually you should know about it considering you made a thread about it. " Ventipulmin is a bronchodilator-an oral treatment for the air passageways of a horse which might have been restricted by infection or internal injury. The treatment, while many experts maintain has little or no effect on race performance is commonly used on horses based within the more polluted city areas in the United States one form being known as clenbuterol. Racing authorities restrict it to 96 hour use in New Zealand because of some of the conditions it is used to treat." Like this

There was absolutely nothing wrong with his post. Great to see certain opinions aren't tolerated on here even when they havn't broken any rules. The case doesn't need to be proven Scooby, regardless of what happens they still had an unfair advantage and their horses were running far from au natural. The defence is hardly believable don't you agree?

Why did his post get deleted ??